Author: Leland Bowie
Publisher/Publication: The Muslim World
Volume/Issue: 67(2)
DOI/ISBN: 10.1111/j.1478-1913.1977.tb03314.x
The aim of this article is to analyze the relationship of the Coptic community with the WAFD party as well as the rest of the Egyptian population. In this endeavour, the author examines the presence of Coptic personalites within WAFD and attempts to illustrate the legitimacy or not of allegations of Coptism. The time perod of focus is the early twentieth century up until the 1940s and the struggle for gaining independence from British influence. As such, the author strives to showcase to an extent the distancing of the Coptic community from the benefits of British rule and in favour of a national Egyptian identity.